I am amazed at how easy seemingly intelligent people forget that seat belt mandates infringe on their individual freedom. Yet no one has sued for that. The difference? Politics, misdirected anger, trumpism, hatred... Anything else?
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Sunday, October 31, 2021
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Sunday, October 24, 2021
US will defend Taiwan if China attacks
Biden says US will defend Taiwan if China attacks
US President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 16, 2021Biden says US will defend Taiwan if China attacks
His comments are an apparent departure from the long-held US policy of "strategic ambiguity".
bbc.com
Would we use nukes? There is no possible way that the US could stop China from taking Taiwan.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
New Mexico Crisis Standards of Care (CSC)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Department of Health announced the enactment of Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) for the state's health care system Monday.
Health officials said the pandemic has placed an enormous, ongoing and unsustainable strain on the state's health care system. They said the strain has been exacerbated by the volume of COVID-19 patients – almost all of whom are unvaccinated.
“Because of COVID, New Mexico hospitals and health care facilities have carried an unmanageable burden," NMDOH Acting Secretary David Scrase said. "Today, the state is offering clarity and support as providers seek to make difficult choices about how to allocate scarce - and precious - health care resources. The goals, as always, remain the same: to save as many New Mexican lives as possible, and to help sustain the health care providers who have sustained our communities throughout this entire pandemic."
Request denied!
Judge denies request to block vaccine mandate at LANL
https://www.krqe.com/health/coronavirus/vaccine/judge-denies-request-to-block-vaccine-mandate-at-lanl/
Science wars continue.
Woke science wars continue.
This time it is Prof.Abbot again from U of Chicago. The same gay that MIT would not allow to speak because he believes in meritocracy not forced equity. Now UCB will not let him speak and off the lab heads resigns in turn. I have an idea we need to inviate Prof. Abbot to speak at LLNL or LANL and lets see what happens. This woke stuff is beyond toxic and detrimental to science.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10106001/Top-Berkeley-physicist-resigns-colleagues-refused-invite-acclaimed-scientist-speak.html
A leading scientist has dramatically resigned from his post at Berkeley University in protest at his colleagues' refusal to invite a physicist to give a speech previously canceled by another college at the behest of a woke mob.
David Romps was the director of Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center (BASC), in California.
He resigned Monday after Berkeley refused his request to invite Dorian Abbot to speak on campus, and said he would stand down by the end of the year, or when a replacement candidate for his current role was found.
Friday, October 15, 2021
Who are the fellows?
American Physics Society Fellows Announced Today.
3 LLNL
3 LANL
0 Sandia
Back in 2000 the old days it use to be like 7-10 LANL, 5-7 LLNL, 3-4 Sandia. Heck even 5 to 10 years ago it would be like 5 or 7 at each lab.
So the decline continues. It is particularly stunning because all the labs are the largest they have ever been in terms of the number of people with Sandia having the most people.
One point is that I did recognize like 8 names of former staff/postdocs from LANL and LLNL who became APS fellows this year. These people who left before 2012. Seems like a correlation with transitions in LLNS and LANS. Kind of telling.
Saturday, October 9, 2021
Oct 15th is comiiiing!
Oct 15 is coming. IsLANL going to really bring the hammer down on the anti-vexers? Also airline pilots, air traffic controllers, cops, first responders, and city work are starting to resit the mandates. I guess we need to fire them all. The only problem is that not that many people have been fired so far. We can do better, do you trust being in plane with a pilot who is so dumb they did not get a vaccine? How did these people even graduate college it is simply crazy. The only explanation is all the fake news and misinformation which shows that something must be done to stop misinformation. Social media, TV, books, radio shows and and even private conversations that promote misinformation need to stoped now. This is not censorship because censorship only applied to things that are true, this is about public safety. Do you really want a neighbor who is non-vaccinated or believes in misinformation, do you really want airline pilots who will not get a vaccine, do you want to give drivers licenses out to people who are so stupid they they will not get a vaccine. We need to make their worlds smaller, much smaller in order to protect us. Also it is not good enough to go after the non-vaccinated, if you are vaccinated but say you do not care about those that are not than you are just as guilty as the non-vaccinated and need to treated as such. Our patience with these people has run out, we had almost 2 years of this because people will not a vaccine, not mention all the other junk because of misinformation.
Monday, October 4, 2021
The demise of the NNSA labs
The demise of the NNSA labs mirrors the demise of Bell labs.
http://usphoenix.net/science,%20technology/what_really_happened_to_lucent_t.htm
Some parts look very similar.
Raises and promotions were based on an annual merit review. There was one primary value: technical
competenc
As time went by and AT&T management became more enlightened, this strict meritocratic ranking system
was eliminated. Lab-wide rankings fell by the wayside, and Department Heads administered salaries and
promotions according to corporate guidelines. More of the salary administration became dictated by these
guidelines. What was once a Lab-wide enforced meritocracy became Department Head arbitrariness.
Originally, every Member of Technical Staff, MTS, was expected to have at least a Master's Degree. Those
that were hired in with a Bachelor's Degree were sent to graduate school at company expense to complete
their studies. There were a few lesser staff positions, but the vast bulk of Bell Labs employees were MTS.
As Bell Labs grew, and the work shifted significantly from longer-term research towards development,
particularly for software, it became difficult and expensive to fully staff to those educational requirements.
Consequently, the variety of employee categories expanded, and the graduate requirements disappeared.
Bachelor's Degree graduates were fully capable of performing the software programming duties being asked
of them.
While this enabled Bell Labs to revise their staffing costs downward and adequately staff the huge project
undertakings, it did not preserve the caliber of the previous employees. Or their motivation toward technical
competence
Saturday, October 2, 2021
Fusion
Fusion: Q Plasma vs Q Total explained
NIF, like other fusion experiments, the announced Q values are not correct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY
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"In other words, Los Alamos National Labs has recognized that they have sincerely held religious beliefs that prevent them from taking the vaccine or getting the vaccine, has offered a one size fits all option, use up all your vacation time, if you have it, and then you go on leave without pay," Artuso said.
The lawsuit, filed Friday, accuses LANL of religious discrimination and violating employees' rights to equal protection under the law, among other things.
Why is LAN so special , I have not heard about any mandate in LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, BNL, ANL or any University. It just appears to be LANL?
Look I get it, if we lose 10, 20, 30, 50, or even 70% of the LANL work force it would not be noticed by anyone or make any difference. This is a fact that everyone who is honest about LANL can agree on, but what makes LANL so special in terms of the Covid vaccine mandate? I have not heard about anything like this from any of my University or DOE lab colleagues. Perhaps I should just take my Bitcoin and go Galt on this whole mess.
Masons last all hands meeting made it clear that LANL is going to focus solely on pits. Fine enough but let us be honest if that is the plan then just call it out so we can be done with 1/2 of the current lab as it is and get a new workforce for the new mission. Just make it clear, and move the non-pit stuff to LLNL, SNL, and elsewhere, or let large portions of the current workforce move to private industry or acdemics . If the lab is going to be just a pit facility one way or another a good chunk of the old lab is going to have to be disposed of one way or another.
If we need a new Rocky Flats Los Alamos could be a good place. By they why on earth would UC or Texas AM want to manage a purely pit facility? My guess UC is going pull out of the contract sooner rather than later. In the old days you had lots of UC grads going to LANL, now we have very few. With LANL as a pit facility I simply do not see any incentive for any university to interested in management.
I know some people are saying we are going to have science and a Pit Facility, but can anyone who actually saw Masons speech say this with a straight face? His speech was clear, LANL is going to make pits the central and only focus.
Some predictions, the Lujan center is already gone, my guess is the NHMFL is next to get the axe, the high explosive and shock stuff is going to go, the high performance computing will be moved. LANL also has work on biophysics, epidemics, quantum computing, astrophysics, superconductivity, climate models, alternative energy, grid science, and novel computing. That stuff will also be leaving the facility, how on earth can you justify epidemic models at a pit facility? How does any of this stuff support LANL facility mission? How does a large scale computer model of an ice sheet build a pit?